Biogas production from beverage factory wastewater in a mobile bioenergy station

Chiu-Yue Lin; Chyi-How Lay; Kit Wayne Chew; Saifuddin Nomanbhay; Rui-Lin Gu; Shen-Ho Chang; Gopalakrishnan Kumar; Pau Loke Show

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128564

Biogas production from beverage factory wastewater in a mobile bioenergy station

Chemosphere. 2021 Feb;264(Pt 2):128564. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128564. Epub 2020 Oct 8.

Authors

Chiu-Yue Lin¹, Chyi-How Lay², Kit Wayne Chew³, Saifuddin Nomanbhay⁴, Rui-Lin Gu⁵, Shen-Ho Chang⁶, Gopalakrishnan Kumar⁷, Pau Loke Show⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan; Green Energy and Biotechnology Industry Research Center, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan; Master's Program of Green Energy Science and Technology, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan.
² Green Energy and Biotechnology Industry Research Center, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan; Master's Program of Green Energy Science and Technology, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan. Electronic address: chlay@mail.fcu.edu.tw.
³ School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Jalan Sunsuria, Bandar Sunsuria, 43900, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁴ Institute of Sustainable Energy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (The National Energy University), Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, Kajang, 43000, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁵ Master's Program of Green Energy Science and Technology, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Accounting, Feng Chia University, No. 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung, 40724, Taiwan.
⁷ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Sinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea.
⁸ Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia, B34, Semenyih, 43500, Selangor, Malaysia. Electronic address: PauLoke.Show@nottingham.edu.my.

PMID: 33065325
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128564

Abstract

Recently, the production of renewable biogas such as biohydrogen and biomethane from wastewaters through anaerobic fermentation has gained worldwide attention. In the present study, a mobile bioenergy generation station had been constructed based on a high-efficiency hydrogenesis & methanogenesis technology (HyMeTek) developed by Feng Chia University, Taiwan. The substrate was a beverage wastewater having chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration of 1200 mg/L. This bioenergy station had a feedstock tank (3.8 m³), a nutrient tank (0.8 m³), an acidogenesis tank (AT, 2 m³), two methanogenesis tanks (MT, 4 m³ for each), a membrane bioreactor and a control room. Biogas production rate, methane concentration, COD removal efficiencies, energy efficiency and economical interest of the plant were assessed. The peak total methane production rates for AT (at hydraulic retention time, HRT, 4 h) and MT (at HRT 8 h) were 430 and 7 mL/L·d, respectively. A strategy of shortening HRT was a promising method to enhance biogas quality and energy efficiency. This mobile bioenergy system has commercial potential because it could bring good economic benefit of initial rate of return (58.84%) and payback time (2.68 y).

Keywords: Biohydrogen; Biomethane; Cost analysis; Food industrial wastewater; HyMeTek.

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Beverages
Biofuels*
Bioreactors
Methane
Taiwan
Waste Disposal, Fluid
Wastewater*

Substances

Biofuels
Waste Water
Methane